NOPE


	Nope was born out of the need for a way to see what files would be
purged if a purge were done, and also show how many blocks would be made
available.  Nope should be set up as a symbol thusly;

		NOPE :==$SYS$MANAGER:NOPE

	Note that Nope may reside in any directory and requires no
privileges as long as the files to be referenced are not read protected
from the user.

	Nope works with the same file specification syntax as purge;

		NOPE			Look at current directory
		NOPE [...]		Look at current directory tree
		NOPE [*...]*.OBJ	Look at all .obj on this disk

	Nope lists directories as it checks them, but if you specify any part
of the filename or extension (*.obj, check.*) it only lists those directories
that contained files fitting that specification.  Nope also gives a grand
total at the end, including the number of files that would be purged and
the number of allocated blocks that would be freed.

	Nope has come in very handy in determining whether we should
schedule a global purge on our user disks.  Also, about the time you decide
to blindly purge a directory, you may find yourself in the wrong directory.  The
reason for the name Nope is that it is a subset of the words NOPurgE and also
I wanted to make it very different from PURGE (somebody suggested NOPURGE, but
sometimes my fingers think faster than my brain!).

	I hope that DEC will see this, and will somehow incorporate a similar
function into DCL.